Two New Contracts Bring Higher Wages to Oak Park River Forest High School

Local 73 members at Oak Park River Forest High School show that when we fight, we win. Safety and Support workers and their Building and Ground coworkers are celebrating significant economic wins in two recently ratified contracts.

Safety and Support Contract

Safety and Support workers successfully bargained a seniority equitable adjustment that awards an hourly pay raise between $1.50 and $4. Additionally, workers will receive annual increases of $1, 75 cents, and 65 cents per hour. Workers also won a shift differential increase depending on shift time and location: 50 cents per hour when the shift begins after noon, $2 per hour for Behavioral Response Leads, and $1.75 per hour for employees assigned to their locker rooms.

Building and Ground Contract

Building and Ground workers also made significant economic gains in their contract. Workers won a large shift differential increase from 45 cents to $1.25 per hour, a 3.5% wage increase over the next three years, a 3% increase during the last year of the contract, one extra holiday, and a $100 shoe allowance. Senior workers with 15 years of service also won five additional vacation days.